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"Nineteen-year-old Sydney has the perfect summer mapped out. She's spending the next four and a half weeks traveling through Europe with her childhood best friend Leela. Their plans include Eiffel Tower selfies, eating cocco gelato, and making out with hot strangers. Her plans do not include Leela's cheating ex-boyfriend showing up on the flight to London, falling for the cheating ex-boyfriend's hot friend, monitoring her mother's spiraling mental...
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"After 40+ years of exploring Europe, Rick considers this travel skills handbook his life's work, and with his expert introductions to the top destinations in Europe, choosing your next trip will be easy and stress-free. Using the travel skills in this book, you'll experience the culture like a local, spend less money, and have more fun"--
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In Outlandish, acclaimed travel writer Nick Hunt takes us across landscapes that should not be there, wildernesses found in Europe yet seemingly belonging to far-off continents: a patch of Arctic tundra in Scotland; the continent's largest surviving remnant of primeval forest in Poland and Belarus; Europe's only true desert in Spain; and the fathomless grassland steppes of Hungary. From snow-capped mountain range to dense green forest, desert ravines...
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Join Rick as he's swept away by a fado singer in Lisbon, learns the dangers of falling in love with a gondolier in Venice, and savors a cheese course in the Loire Valley. Contemplate the mysteries of centuries-old stone circles in England, dangle from a cliff in the Swiss Alps, and hear a French farmer's defense of foie gras. With a brand-new, original introduction from Rick reflecting on his decades of travel, For the Love of Europe features 100...
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Travel through time and discover Europe's most iconic paintings, sculptures, and historic buildings. From Venus to Versailles, Apollo to David, and Mona Lisa to The Thinker, Rick Steves and co-author Gene Openshaw will have you marveling, learning, and laughing, one masterpiece at a time. Whether you're traveling to Europe or just dreaming about it, this book both stokes your wanderlust and kindles a greater appreciation of art, with historical context...
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"An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to Turkey"--
Initially a victory line where Allies met at the end of World War Two, the Iron Curtain became the front of a new kind of war: it divided Europe from north to south for forty-five years. New generations have grown up since these borders came down, bu what has the Iron Curtain left in its wake? Phillips travels its...
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"Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for nearly fifty years. Newly revised and updated, this comprehensive annual guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions and sightseeing options." --
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In "Sister Wendy's grand tour," Sister Wendy takes you to the capitals of Europe to discover the great art of the western world and the artists who created it. Continue the trip through the museums of England and Scotland in "Sister Wendy's odyssey." Discover artworks from the well known to the obscure and artists from medieval to modern.
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"In 1784, travel wrenched Thomas Jefferson out of the darkest period of his life. He sailed to France a broken man, but on the road, he rediscovered a world of hidden beauty and penned a guide he called "Hints for Americans Traveling in Europe." During a crisis of his own, Derek Baxter dares himself to follow Jefferson's route. On a series of journeys (piloting a Dutch canal boat, hiking the French Alps, and fishing in the Atlantic), Baxter follows...
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This two-disc DVD includes the new Rick Steves' Europe public television programs. Included are ten half-hour episodes, ranging from Estonia to Bosnia to Morocco, along with a one-hour special on Spain's Andalucia. Featured shows: Andalucia: The Best of Southern Spain; Croatia: Adriatic Delights; Dubrovnik and Balkan Side-Trips; The Best of Slovenia; Granada, Cordoba and Spain's Costa del Sol; Andalucia, Gibraltar, and Tangier; Norway's West: Fjords,...
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"Through the author's travels in Europe and the United States, Try to Get Lost explores the quest for place that compels and defines us: the things we carry, how politics infuse geography, media's depictions of an idea of home, the ancient and modern reverberations of the word "hotel," and the ceaseless discovery generated by encounters with self and others on familiar and foreign ground. Frank posits that in fact time itself may be our ultimate,...
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